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Microsoft’s productivity tool, PowerToys, received its V0.64 with a handful of features, which brings the Locksmith tool and the new File Editor. On top of this, it has a new feature that allows you to export your PowerToys Settings backup and restore and more powered to the FancyZone. 

File Locksmith 

This is one of the most interesting things; we have been in a situation where we got stuck error while deleting a file. These features allow you to find the app and easily terminate the process to finish deleting the file.  

Hosts File Editor Tool 

This allows you to edit the Host File in Windows 11 or 10 with a dedicated interface. Without it, you need to edit the Host File with Notepad. 

What’s new PowerToys v0.64 

  • New Utility: Adds File locksmith, Host File Editor 
  • Setting Backup and Restore 
  • Set defaults rotation of the screen; when a Monitor ID reset 
  • Updated with Group Policy Objects settings for enabling and disabling the software utilities in organisations. 

You need to know these highlighted features; however, there are more features. The developer confirms bringing the warning sign about the deprecation during the Video Conference Mute. 

Besides this, Always on Top is fixed now; it detects and places the window again on top if not. New Hexadecimal integral format to Color Picker. As mentioned, Fancy Zone allows you to set the default layout for the horizontal and vertical screen, but there is more to it. 

It now improves the accessibility for screen render by replacing the remaining number boxes and fixes the issue related to breaking window switching shortcuts. Meanwhile, the other has been fixed and optimised so that you can read it here over GitHub

PowerToys 0.64 adds File Locksmith and Hosts File Editor tools

DOWNLOAD PowerToy 0.64

It now improves the accessibility for screen render by replacing the remaining number boxes and fixes the issue related to breaking window switching shortcuts. Meanwhile, the other has been fixed and optimised so that you can read it here over GitHub

PowerToys is one of the most-powerful utility tools that add productivity value with a handful of tools in Windows. Which is constantly improving and adds features that might later come to windows stable update. 

There are many known issues, including the error with the Text Extractor where it won’t recognise the text on the Arm64-based devices that you can check out over the GitHub page. 

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